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Said Azh (3.6.1999), born in Stuttgart, is a German/Persian composer who, due to his background, tries to explore the dialogue between Persian and Western/German ideals in music. He utilises a variety of tonal characteristics, the discovery of vast planes and profoundly natural states. To this end, he not only uses traditional Persian instruments: In his works, he also deals with language, the voice, spatial states, the interplay between electronics and acoustic music, as well as social and philosophical themes.

He has won the Jeunesse Musicale national competition ‘Jugend Komponiert’ four times in a row, with the prize-winning pieces ‘Aban’, “Ghazal”, ‘Liminal Spaces’ and the ‘Pasyryk Fragments’ (2022).

Other projects include pieces for the Carl Bechstein Foundation in cooperation with ‘NEUES ZEUG’, several orchestral pieces for the Stuttgart Music School that deal with Turkish baglama music and cycles for voice solo and choir, such as ‘Kare hame rast’ for voice and vibraphone, or ‘Sternenreuse’, which were performed at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts.

In 2023-24, Said Azh completed a percussion concerto for the percussionist Sebastian Wielandt, which was commissioned in cooperation with the German Music Council.

In September 2022, Said Azh was a scholarship holder at the Schloss Wiepersdorf Cultural Foundation.

Said Azh completed his bachelor's degree in music and English teaching at the HMDK Stuttgart in 2024 and has been studying composition with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kreppein and Prof. Orm Finnendahl at the HfMDK Frankfurt since the same year.

Outside of composition, Said Azh works as a choirmaster for various choirs, including LU im Takt.